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1-Person Stamp - Cooking Oil Yizheng City, Jiangsu
| Issuer | Yizheng City Grain Bureau, Jiangsu |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse lettering | 使用须知 1.本券限在本市指定粮站凭证购油使用。 2.本油券为无价证证作购食油用。 3.本券不准买卖,专禁伪造,遗失不补。 (Translation: Terms of Use 1. This coupon may only be used to purchase oil at designated grain stations in this city with proof of identity. 2. This oil coupon is a valueless certificate to be used solely for the purchase of cooking oil. 3. This coupon may not be bought or sold. Counterfeiting is strictly prohibited. Lost coupons will not be replaced.) |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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China's rationing coupons for edible oil persisted well into the reform era in many smaller cities and county-level municipalities, long after coastal urban centers had phased them out. Yizheng, a mid-sized Jiangsu city perhaps better known for its synthetic fiber industrial base than its grain administration, was still running a localized allocation system for cooking oil in 1991 — by which point national-level oil coupons had already been largely discontinued. Local grain bureaus retained authority to issue their own instruments, which accounts for the considerable variation in design, denomination, and format across Jiangsu alone during this period.
The official seal functions as the sole security feature, which was typical of county and city-level issues where sophisticated printing infrastructure was unavailable.